Mechanical drawings are an excellent way to convey design information, and while sophisticated 3D modeling is slowly taking over, with some companies accepting files over drawings, the mechanical ...

TEACHERS of the elements of mechanical drawing to students in marine, electrical, railway, and mechanica engineering, will find that this book contains a concise statement of the essential principles ...

Sophie Feliksinska-Swierz looks at two BIM project applications in the MEP sector. The fundamental principle of BIM is that the object oriented model remains the reliable source of project data, ...

This column ends my tenure as the regular author of this column (thanks for reading!). It also completes my “Back to BASics” series that has focused on the fundamentals of BAS functionality and design ...

A recent article published in Buildings proposed an automatic approach for generating building information modeling (BIM) of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems based on two-dimensional ...

Artist’s fascination with engineering and the natural world explored through mechanical drawings and models of inventions from flying machines to looms Sketched across the pages of his notebooks, ...

FreeCAD started out a little shaky, but it has gotten better and better. If you are trying to draw a schematic, it probably isn’t the best way to do it. However, it is a great graphical alternative to ...

The “Senseless Drawing Bot,” by Japanese designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi, uses a double pendulum mounted on a modified electric skateboard to create an ingenious spray-painting machine that ...